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December 2007




Images in Cardiology
Cardiac tumor versus thrombus differentiation: role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
  by Dev Vaz, MD1 • Shawn D. Teague, MD2 • Jo Mahenthiran, MD1
  From 1Krannert Institute of Cardiology and 2Department of Radiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis.

CAD and Diabetes
Prediction of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes and albuminuria
  by Elisa T. Lee, PhD1 • Barbara V. Howard, PhD2 • Wenyu Wang, PhD1 • Thomas K. Welty, MD3 • James M. Galloway, MD4 • Lyle G. Best, MD3 • Richard R. Fabsitz, PhD5 • Ying Zhang, MD, PhD1 • Jeunliang Yeh, PhD1 • Richard B. Devereux, MD6
  1Center for American Indian Health Research, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 2MedStar Research Institute,Washington, DC; 3Missouri Breaks Industries Research, Inc., Timber Lake, South Dakota; 4University of Arizona, Tucson; 5Epidemiology and Biometry Program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; 6Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
  Commentary
The time has come for ethnicity-specific CV risk calculators
  by Kathleen L. Wyne, MD, PhD
Hyperglycemia and platelet function in diabetic patients: relevance to acute myocardial ischemia and infarction
  by John D. Horowitz, MBBS, PhD, FRACP • Yuliy Y. Chirkov, PhD
  From the Cardiology Unit, Basil Hetzel Research Institute, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
  Case Report
Rapid correction of hyperglycemia in a diabetic patient with coronary stenosis
  Commentary
Significance of hyperglycemia and platelet function in diabetic patients
  by Alan G.Wasserman, MD

Hypertension
Obesity-related hypertension
  by Susann Patschan, MD • Jόrgen Scholze, MD
  From New York Medical College, Renal Research,Valhalla, New York; and Charitι Berlin, Department of Medicine, Outpatient Clinic, Berlin, Germany.
  Case Report
Improvement of hypertension and diabetes in an obese woman taking sibutramine
  Commentary
Treatment of hypertension in patients taking sibutramine
  by Leslie Cho, MD
CAD and Imaging
Prognostic value of multislice computed tomography coronary angiography
  by Joanne D. Schuijf, MSc1 • Gabija P. Pundziute, MD2 • Jeroen J. Bax, PhD1
  From the 1Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; and the 2Department of Cardiology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.
  Case Report
Two patients with normal and abnormal coronary arteries
  Commentary
Multislice computed tomography coronary angiography: a study in search of a clinical niche
  by Richard E. Stewart, MD

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Albuminuria and hyperglycemia: their impact on patients with diabetes
Maintenance of Certification in Cardiology
  Newsbeat
News from the 2007 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Orlando, Fla, Nov. 10-14, 2007
  News from the ABC
A personal tribute to Dr. Malcolm Taylor: A truly successful man

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